The Bones of Paradise by Jonis Agee Don’t Be a Stranger by John D Nesbitt Award-winning author of The River Wife re- Elwood Lawrence--top hand at the Crown Butte turns with a multi-generational family saga, ranch--tries to find out where the cattle are dis- Westerns set in the unforgiving Nebraska Sandhills in appearing to. It looks like an inside job. His work the years following the massacre at Wounded becomes complicated when he develops an in- For Those Times when wild Knee—an ambitious tale of history, venge- terest in a woman who comes to visit the ranch horses couldn’t keep you ance, race, guilt, betrayal, family, and belonging, filled and behind it all is the disappearance of a flashy stranger who away from a good book. The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi Dead Man’s Road by Randy Denmon Decimated by drought, Nevada and Arizona A nation is staggering to its feet after the skirmish over dwindling shares of the Colorado long, devastating Civil War. The West is full River, while California watches, waiting. Into Dead Reckoning and the Last Chance by of dreamers, wanderers, fighters and build- the fray steps Las Vegas water knife Angel Ve- Mike Blakely ers. One man has a plan to build a railroad-- lasquez, who "cuts" water for the Southern Ne- Two stories in one. Dead Reckoning: After a that plunges him into a brutal battle for sur- vada Water Authority and its boss, Catherine Case, ensuring botched confidence scam, a swindler goes on Payback at Big Silver by Ralph Cotton that her lush, luxurious arcology developments can bloom in a killing spree. His first victim is the brother the desert and that anyone who challenges her is left in the of a rustler-turned-preacher. In the final Arizona Territory Ranger Sam Burrack knows reconking, either the preacher or the killer all too well that criminals don’t concern them- gutted-suburban dust. He becomes a pawn in a game far big- will go to his dusty death. Last Chance: Ross selves with consequences. So it’s no surprise The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge by Michael Caldwell is on the run from the Army and his wife. Cald- to him when Big Silver’s Sheriff Sheppard Punke well finds refuge behind a sheriff’s badge and in the arms Stone makes an enemy of wealthy cattle of a sultry madam. But it’s only a matter of time before Now a major motion picture. In this story of sur- rancher Edsel Centrila, whose son thinks he’s above the his bloody past catches up with him. vival, Hugh Glass is an expert trapper and fron- law. After Stone refuses a large payoff to let Centrila’s son tiersman. After being viciously mauled by a mas- Buckhorn by William W Johnstone with JA out of jail, Centrila throws all of his money into buying up Johnstone sive grizzly bear and abandoned and left for dead Crater City, New Mexico, is a bustling min- Epitaph: A Novel of the O.K. Corral by Mary by his fellow trappers, Hugh is pushed to survive by one thing ing town brimming with the stench of men Doria Russell The Long High Noon by Loren D Estleman hungry to get rich the old fashioned way -- America in 1881: a deeply divided nation; Randy Locke and Frank Farmer have spent dec- killing the competition. Dennis Conroy is the owner of the biggest saloon in town, and he vicious politics; a shamelessly partisan me- ades attempting to annihilate each other any needs a few good sharpshooters to help protect survey- dia; a president loathed by half the popu- time they are within shooting distance. So far, ors laying out a route for a spur rail line before his rival lace. On October 26, when Doc Holliday and the men are even. Enter Abraham Cripplehorn Hugh Thornton beats him to it. the Earp brothers faced off against the Clantons and the with a proposition. With the popular Buffalo The Legend of Perley Gates by William W McLaurys in Tombstone, Arizona, Wyatt Earp was the last Bill's Wild West show a raging success, why not publicize Johnstone with JA Johnstone man standing, the only one unscathed. The lies began be- their next duel and sell tickets to the event? Winner take all, Like his famous grandfather and namesake fore the smoke cleared-- this is the story of the woman in more ways than one. Frank and Randy make a date for Perley Gates--a hell-raising mountain man behind the myth: Josephine Sarah Marcus, who loved Wy- death...but will they be able to wait for the show? And could with a heavenly name--young Perley wants att Earp for forty-nine years and who carefully chipped it be that their decades-long thirst for revenge is the only adventure, excitement, and freedom. And away at the truth until she had crafted the heroic legend thing they are living for? like his grandfather before him, he will find his dream--in the untamed wilds of a lawless frontier . that would become the epitaph her husband deserved. That dream though might just become a nightmare. The Snowy Range Gang and Vendetta Gold Wreaths of Glory : a Western Story by Johnny D The Vengeance of Mothers: The Journals of by Mike Blakely Boggs Margaret Kelly & Molly McGill by Jim Fergus Two stories in one. Snowy Range Gang: Alistair Durant was a young Confederate soldier, "9 March 1876 My name is Meggie Kelly and Claude Duval thought he was through with captured by the Yankees, and released when he I take up this pencil with my twin sister, rustlers and killers when he left Texas for Wy- took an oath never again to bear arms against Susie. We have nothing left, less than noth- oming. But the retired livestock detective the Union. He had a long walk back to his home ing. The village of our People has been de- soon finds ranch hands turning up dead and in Clay County, Missouri. It is on this trek that he meets an- stroyed. Empty of human feeling, half-dead ourselves, all cattle missing. When the prime suspect looks to possibly other youngster, Beans Kimbrough. The two become com- that remains of us intact are hearts turned to stone. We be framed, it is up to the two of them to find the true panions and then friends on the way to Clay County. It is curse the U.S. government, we curse the Army, we curse culprit. Vendetta Gold: A bloody family feud sent Roy there that Beans will introduce Alistair to a man calling him- the savagery of mankind, white and Indian alike. We Huckaby to prison for three years. Now that he’s out, he The Ballad of Black Bart by Loren D vows to ride along into a solid, honest new life. But when Preacher’s Hellstorm by William W Johnstone Estleman Robert B Parker’s Revelation by Robert Knott with J A Johnstone Between July 1875 and November 1883, a Itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch Long ago, the legendary trapper known as single outlaw robbed the stagecoaches of return to confront an escaped criminal in the Preacher took shelter with the Absaroka, and fell Wells Fargo in California’s Mother Lode grittiest entry yet of the New York Times best- in love with a girl called Bird in the Tree. Twenty country a record of twenty-eight times. selling series. A pack of cold-blooded convicts years later, he rescues a woman and her son Known only as Black Bart, his true identity remained a is suddenly on the loose — and it’s up to any from an ambush by the hated Blackfoot. The woman is Bird- mystery. Meanwhile, one of Wells Fargo’s legendary chief and all territorial lawmen, including Cole and Hitch, to cap- ie, and the valiant young warrior is Hawk That Soars-- Preacher's son. Now the greatest fighter on the frontier is ture the fugitives and rescue the woman kidnapped during The Western Star by Craig Johnson their escape. But nothing is ever what it seems. Their lead- A photograph of twenty-five armed men in The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo by Ian er is on the hunt for a hidden cache of gold and jewels — front of a Challenger steam locomotive Stansel sends Sheriff Walt Longmire on a collision In the Distance by Hernan Diaz When Silas Van Loy flees home on horseback to course between his past and present, plac- A young Swedish boy finds himself in penniless avoid capture for his brother's murder, he is ing him and everyone he cares about and alone in California. He travels East in soon followed by both the police and his broth- search of his brother, moving on foot against er's wife, Lena, who is intent on exacting re- Cape Hell by Loren D Estleman the great push to the West. Driven back over venge. She reluctantly lets her trusted stable assistant join In this thrilling new novel by Spur Award- and over again on his journey through vast her in a journey across the wilds of Northern California in the winning author Loren D Estleman, U S Depu- expanses, Håkan meets naturalists, criminals, religious fa- ty Page Murdock is ordered to Cape Hell, Mexico, to verify a report that a former Con- Monahan’s Massacre by William W Johnstone The Darkest Winter by William W Johnstone federate captain is raising an army to take with J A Johnstone with J A Johnstone over Mexico City—and then intends to turn north to re- The accidental gunslinger Dooley Monahan has While back on the trail, Breck Wallace, exiled kindle the Civil War.